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I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Messiah died for nothing!"

Even as Avraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Goyim by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Avraham, saying, "In you will all the nations be blessed."

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Messiah, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Avraham by promise.

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.

For you are all sons of God, through faith in Messiah Yeshua.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Messiah.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are no gods.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Messiah Yeshua.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

Sha'ul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God, to the holy ones who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Messiah Yeshua:

Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah;